View From Your Table

What you see above is the remains of a maple bacon king cake, a speciality of the Baton Rouge bakery Tiger Deauxnuts. These things have become legendary among Baton Rouge foodies since the shop opened a couple of years ago. I had never tasted one before this morning. As I’m on a low-carb diet, I only had one (okay, two), small bites.

It nearly knocked me flat! I will be thinking about that taste all week. It’s king cake season in south Louisiana, which means, in our variation of the Epiphany tradition, we eat these cakes until Mardi Gras. You can get them in various flavors, but I’m a king cake purist, and prefer traditional. But this maple bacon variation is something exalted, and exalting. I don’t know if Tiger Deauxnuts ships these things, but if they do, YOU HAVE TO HAVE ONE! Follow the link to their Facebook page, and give it a shot. It may actually be a crime to sell pastries this rich and delicious and bacony.

If you’re unlucky, the New Orleans Pelicans basketball team will have King Cake Baby, it’s terrifying mascot, deliver it to your door. This is a thing:

You have to keep us updated on how your diet is going, especially with things like that floating around

[NFR: Really well, I have to say. I knew that if I ate any more than a couple of bites, I would feel physically bad. I had three bites of sweetened whipped cream on my wife’s birthday (Jan 3), and felt like I had taken a pill or something. Sugar is powerful stuff. — RD]

I’m with Carol on the extremely disturbing king cake baby,the stuff of nightmares. Have you had maple bacon pannekoeken before? They are so delicious-look for them in any Dutch American/Canadian community. While I’ve had bacon pannekoeken in the Netherlands I don’t recall seeing the maple variant. There’s really nothing tastier than dark maple syrup be it in a sweet or savoury.

[NFR: MAPLE BACON PANNEKOEKEN?!?! That is a thing that exists?!?! We live in the best of all possible worlds. I WANT THEM NOW! — RD]